"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."

"If you want to be consistent in your aesthetic criticism, then forbid also a too serious and too modest investigation of the truth, for too great seriousness is the most ludicrous thing of all, and to…"

"The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, and the greater is the saving of your alienated being."